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Let’s Connect the Dots

14.8% of Sacramento county’s total student population equals 36,659 children identified as “absent”. Please, pause for a moment and consider this data.

I’ll wait.

I’m still waiting.

36,659 Absent School Children Is Staggering!

Are you back?

Great! Now ponder these facts.

• California schools received an overall C- grade and ranks 41st in the nation
• California spends approximately $11,000 a year to teach every student
• California invests nearly $78,000 each year for a single inmate

How does that make any sense?

Fact: 100% of the children served by Shoulder to Shoulder and Imagine Community Academy are a part of that 14.8%!

Diana Lambert and Phillip Reese of The Sacramento Bee wrote a great article on this problem.Follow this link to read more about it.